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Chemistry World January 13, 2014 Emma Stoye	Ammonia freezes up under pressure Researchers in France have shown that when molecular ammonia is put under enormous pressure, it becomes unstable and then forms a solid ionic ice.
Chemistry World January 12, 2014 Andy Extance	Rocket reactor forces space hydrogen rethink Scientists have pushed low-temperature experimentation and computational chemistry to their limits to better understand hydrogen fluoride, which astronomers use to study regions of space that are otherwise hard to image.
Chemistry World January 10, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Nitrenium hugs stabilize positively rare complexes Everyone knows that like charges repel one another. But unusual coordination compounds bearing cationic ligands bound to cationic metals have been prepared by scientists in Israel, opening up fresh opportunities for organic transformations.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 James Urquhart	Simple route to add nitrogen to drugs US researchers have discovered a simple one-pot, scaleable way to synthesize aziridines -- three-membered rings that are important building blocks for introducing nitrogen into more complex molecules, including medicinal drugs.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Tim Wogan	Disorder opens up battery material field Better lithium-ion batteries that hold more power could be made by introducing disorder into their electrodes -- going against the prevailing wisdom on the best way to improve them.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014 Andrea Sella	Tsvett's column Chemistry is not dissipating. In the life sciences it has come to underpin everything from physiology to imaging to genetics. And, for me, that all began with the work of an obscure botanist trying to understand photosynthesis.
Chemistry World January 9, 2014	Spinning into focus NMR is used by big industry, and scientists in pharmaceutical companies, for example, have appreciated the benefits of NMR spectroscopy for years. It reveals the structure of molecules in a sample, providing more information than some other analytical techniques.
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Flexible electronics get even more bendy Researchers in Switzerland have developed a method to create electronic membranes that are thin and flexible enough to wrap around a human hair.
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Caryl Richards	First route to diphosphorus tetroxide Researchers from the University of Georgia, US, are the first to successfully synthesize stable diphosphorus tetroxide, the long sought-after phosphorus analogue of N 2O 4. What's more they performed the feat at room temperature.
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball	We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon.
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